transverse vibrations

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plural noun

Physics.

1. periodic disturbances for which the particle oscillations of the medium are perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

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transverse vibrations

As transverse vibrations are not propagated through water, it follows that the second part of the shock cannot, as some maintain, have been composed of transverse vibrations.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

Among material bodies, a solid alone really possesses the rigidity sufficient for the production within it of transverse vibrations and for their maintenance during their propagation.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

A calculation analogous to that of Lord Kelvin may be applied to find the frequency of small transverse vibrations of a cylinder of liquid under the action of the capillary force.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

But as the head increases, so do the lateral velocities which go to form the transverse vibrations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

The property is rather a kind of elasticity, which ordinary fluids do not possess, but which facilitates the propagation of transverse vibrations.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various